Blood Meridian as Brokeback Mountain knockoff
Cast your vote on Bookninja’s hilarious literary novel repackaging entries. Right now I’m leaning toward Blood Meridian.
Cast your vote on Bookninja’s hilarious literary novel repackaging entries. Right now I’m leaning toward Blood Meridian.
Literary essay: Akin to the personal essay, only with bigger words and more profound content… Chris Offutt decodes lofty writer speak.
Tonight at Housing Works, I’m hosting Witches, Demons, and Thieves, a Puritan Halloween celebration (costumes optional) featuring authors Hannah Tinti (The Good Thief) and Kathleen Kent (The Heretic’s Daughter), and artist Michael Aaron Lee, a friend whose magnificent forest paintings I first praised here a couple years ago. Last month I posted a mini-interview with Kent, and now here’s a . . .
Amitava Kumar explains why he stopped reading 2008 Booker prize winner The White Tiger on page 35.
We were in London ten hours or so before I came down with a cold. Since I refused to stay in the hotel and rest, the thing burgeoned so that, on the very bizarre flight* home, I went through, seriously, eight or nine tissue mini-packs. Not to mention a half box of Fisherman’s Friend. After I sneezed into the first . . .